master workman
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A master workman or superintendent; a director or manager; a political dictator.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster
In a day of haphazard fiction and rodomontade criticism, the advent of a master workman is likely to be unheralded, if, indeed, he is fortunate enough to find a publisher to put him between covers.
From Arthur Machen A Novelist of Ecstasy and Sin by Vincent Starrett
"I have decided, therefore, to possess myself of tools and materials, in order that I may make myself a master workman, and do my part in the great nation-building enterprises of the time and country."
From A Captain in the Ranks A Romance of Affairs by George Cary Eggleston
The experience which grows out of the sentence constitutes him a creator, a master workman, and lifts him into a higher region of life.
From Misread Passage of Scriptures by James Baldwin Brown
The number of apprentices that a master workman might employ was strictly limited, in order that the journeymen might not become too numerous.
From An Introduction to the History of Western Europe by James Harvey Robinson
